ISBN: 9781597094368 - beyond repair: living in a fractured state (11 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. After recovering from a head-on collision and its attendant trauma, the author struggles to reconnect to a world in the throes of a form of cultural PTSD.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 2011, my family was in a major car accident. We were hit head-on by a man in the throes of a heart attack. It took three years to recover from our injuries, and a couple more to deal with the aftereffects of trauma. When I finally returned to the world as father and husband, friend and brother, writer and citizen it became clear that our society was in its own traumatized state reeling from the string of police shootings of unarmed African Americans, stunned by yet one more mass shooting. The people around me were displaying all the signs of PTSD jumpiness, irritability, numbness and, concordantly, my interactions out in daily life were becoming more dysfunctional, at times downright hostile. Us against them. Red vs. blue. Black vs. white. Rich vs. poor. That we were living in a progressive town inside a conservative county in the Mountain South only made things more volatile. I decided that if we were all living in a fractured society no longer recognizable, then it was up to me to re-engage in it. I would enter into encounters with people as conscious as possible of the potential divides and misunderstandings between us. I started with my neighborhood and town, then moved out into the counties around us, then traveled further out into the country. My goal: to connect.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorSebastian Matthews is the author of a memoir, In My Father&rsquos Footsteps, and two books of poetry, We Generous and Miracle Day. His hybrid collection of poetry and pro.